Source of Obama photo from Kenya
The Obama photo from Kenya (in Somali-elder garb) was posted on the Free Republic site on February 23, 2008 and is apparently scanned from a periodical titled "Examiner February 4, 2008." This posting was made to the highly traffic'd, conservative Republican forum two days before Drudge ran the photo on Monday, February 25,
and claimed he'd "obtained" it from a Clinton staffer email.
EXIF data shows the scanned photo was created February 23, 2008
using Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery and is stored at the Fotki site. The context is from a very misleading article.
The scan of that photo from the "Examiner" was first posted, in a cropped version on the day of the scanning, February 23, by "bannie". "cmsgop" re-uploaded the full photo to other forum threads the next day (24th). This photo will have been much emailed during those two days.
The photo furor buried tv exposure of Clinton's main event that week - the foreign policy speech that same day at George Washington University, with endorsements by various generals, so was no favor to her camp.
Another copy of that photo has apparently, for some time, been part of a website story about his trip to Kenya in 2006 on the Hans-Geeska Afrika Online site, and Obama authorized a video documentary of that trip.
http://andrys1.blogspot.com/2008/02/source-of-obama-photo-from-kenya.html
